Thunderball Live Tweet Digest

I needed one more live tweet to complete my full set of 23 James Bond live tweet digests. This one slipped through the cracks the first time around. Not so this time. Fitting perhaps because #Thunderball was the first live tweet on the initial #Bond_age_ run for which people actually showed up. It was my self-proclaimed kill episode. If nobody tweeted with me, I was going to stop the live-tweets altogether and just focus on my essays. 20+ episodes later, we’re still going. Thanks, everybody!

…and time to do battle! (Yes, underwater. No you don’t get to come out. What’s the fun if you come out of the water. It’ll be slow-ish, but we’ll speed it up, like the shark. No, you fight just like above the water, except more slowly. Yes, you can shoot. Not guns. Harpoons. Yes, harpoons. We’ll speed this up too. I don’t know… just do it. We’re paying you, that’s why.)…

[…] Van Nutter spoke every line with an unrivaled brand of universal condescension and self-loathing. (See the Thunderball Live Tweet Digest to see our reaction to Van Nutter.) They didn’t write Van Nutter another role as Leiter (with good reason). The character […]

[…] Van Nutter spoke every line with an unrivaled brand of universal condescension and self-loathing. (See the Thunderball Live Tweet Digest to see our reaction to Van Nutter.) They didn’t write Van Nutter another role as Leiter (with good reason). The character […]